It’s used to treat: • rheumatoid arthritis (roo-ma-toyd arth-ri-tus) • psoriatic arthritis (saw-ree-at-ik arth-ri-tus)
After two years of treatment, leflunomide is as safe as sulfasalazine and Leflunomide (LEF) is a conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
With RA, your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body Leflunomide for Rheumatoid Arthritis User Reviews
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It is one of the newer disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and works in a similar way to other DMARDs, such as methotrexate, ciclosporin and sulfasalazine, in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis
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Introduction
A doctor can recommend treatment Leflunomide (Arava™) has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
The active metabolite of leflunomide, A77 1726, at low, therapeutically applicable doses, reversibly inhibits
In phase II and III clinical trials of active rheumatoid arthritis, leflunomide was shown to improve primary and secondary outcome measures with a satisfactory safety profile
Arava has an average rating of 6